SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco supervisor Eric Mar wants to let illegal immigrants vote in school board elections, and he’s banking on public opposition to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s views on immigration to push the proposal through.

Mar is expected to propose a charter amendment today for the November ballot to allow noncitizens with children or dependents 18 years old or younger in the San Francisco Unified School District to vote in elections for the school board, regardless of whether they’re in the country illegally, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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The measure would mark the third attempt by city officials to grant noncitizens voting rights. Voters rejected similar proposals in 2004 and 2010. In 2004, voters defeated the measure 51 to 49 percent, and the opposition grew to nearly 55 percent against in 2010, Ballotpedia reports.

But Mar believes this time things are different, primarily because of an intense focus on illegal immigration sparked by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for building a wall to control the flow of immigrants along the country’s southern border.

“In the previous campaigns, it was a different climate,” Mar told the Chronicle. “With Donald Trump’s racist and anti-immigrant sentiments, there is a reaction from many of us who are disgusted by those politics. I think that’s going to ensure there is strong Latino turnout as well as other immigrant turnout.”

While media reports have focused on the anti-Trump sentiment among Latinos, The American Mirror highlighted a recent YouTube video with a barrage of Latinos from across the country professing their support for Trump.

Regardless, David Carrillo, director of the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley School of Law, said the San Francisco proposal likely violates the state constitution, which means the local amendment would be essentially worthless.

“The California Constitution limits the franchise (of voting) to citizens,” Carrillo wrote in an email to the Chronicle. “And the Legislature (which controls voter qualifications for statewide elections) has by statute limited voting to citizens. So even if it passes, the measure’s prospects in the courts are dubious.”

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UC Irvine law professor Erwin Chemerinsky pointed out that the U.S. Constitution does not specifically preclude noncitizens from voting, though it does prohibit discrimination. From a federal perspective, “if the government wants to five voting to a larger group of people like noncitizens it can do so if it wants to,” he said.

Ron Hayduk, political science professor at the Queens College of the City University of New York, told the Chronicle seven municipalities in the U.S. have granted noncitizens the right to vote, including six in Maryland that allow illegals to vote in local elections.

Chicago, he said, allows noncitizens to vote for school councils, a sort of school board for each individual school.

“The idea of early voting is it builds civic education, expands political participation and helps incorporate immigrants,” he told the Chronicle. “Opponents say there is already a pathway to vote, which is to become a citizen.”

The news site reports the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to consider the proposal today, and if approved it will join another ballot proposal to lower the voting age to 16 for local elections.